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Vol 64 No 15

Published 20th July 2023


Sudan

Hemeti's grand plan is stalemated

After his putsch failed, the paramilitary leader has relaunched an ethnic war in Darfur as supply lines tighten

When the war of the generals broke out on 15 April, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti', the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), had clear objectives: to thwart the plan to subsume his paramilitary force under the command of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) within two years, and to do so his fighters would capture General Abdel Fattah al Burhan and other senior military officers.

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